Posted on November 12, 2010 13:58
Categories: State and Local
Topics: Quality | Spending | State Data
The Commonwealth Fund released a brief examining current state initiatives to implement and utilize all-payer claims databases (APCD). APCDs collect and share comprehensive data on disease incidence, treatment costs, and treatment outcomes. The brief notes that a lack of standardized data is hampering state efforts to improve health care quality and efficiency and suggests that APCDs are an effective tool for state-level health reform implementation.
From the report:
States are facing increasing health care challenges, from variable quality of care to ever-increasing costs. Comprehensive information on disease incidence, treatment costs, and health outcomes is essential for informing and evaluating state health policies, but it is not readily available. To address these information needs, some states are developing all-payer claims databases (APCDs), and these systems are proving to be valuable information sources. As more states implement APCDs, efforts will be made to standardize common data elements that will improve the comparability of data from state to state.
Full Report: All-Payer Claims Databases: State Initiatives to Improve Health Care Transparency (PDF | 762 KB) 
Commonwealth Fund. (2010). All-payer claims databases: state initiatives to improve health care transparency. Love, D., Custer, W., and Miller, P.
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